I have never understood people using big banks. I will admit I am not great with money, as opposed to all the self-proclaimed experts here on /. But one thing I think i am right about: I have always used community banks or credit unions for basic banking, by which I mean savings, checking, mortgage, and car loans. It is nice calling a guy down the street if you have a problem.

SBF is still alive, and will probably be out of jail this year, once his parents buy enough trump watches, or Trump coins, or whatever. Along with the creepy blood test lady.

Nvidia guy always irritates me with his leather jacket uniform. Personal brand. Whatever. Seems like he is a bit high on his own supply. I AM STEVE JOBS! Just like the creepy blood test lady, beware of people who think this way.

(Yes, cynical ones, I have my own uniform of khakis and button down shirts. But at least the colors and the patterns change from day to day!)

Back about 50 years ago my brother had a semi automatic vw beetle. Iirc he had a traditional gear shifter but no clutch. He would let up on the gas and then shift. (I suppose auto transmissions are similar today, but most people donâ(TM)t shift them while driving, and it is not required. )

In the past, because of poor record keeping, they lost some cars. They blamed the last person that rented the car. More than that, they convinced local police to arrest and jail the renter. And if you didnâ(TM)t have bail? Sucks to be you.

Why on earth the police went along with this was a mystery. I hope the wrongfully imprisoned customers are suing the pants off of hertz and police.

Now Iâ(TM)m paranoid. Whenever I drop off a car at the airport for any vendor, I take a picture of it in the return line.

I am sure there are good vendors, and then a whole bunch of baddies who sell the bare minimum quality-wise. I just donâ(TM)t have the time or inclination to figure it out. I pay the Brother âtax.â(TM)

But you know what? I have been very satisfied with my Brother laser printer and I also have a few other pieces of Brother kit. They seem to know what business they are in. I donâ(TM)t mind spending for retail toner. I donâ(TM)t print that much, so my cartridges last a year or so.

HP, on the other handâ¦.. I gave up on them years ago. They do not know what business they are in. Or maybe they do, and Iâ(TM)m just confused. I had expected them to build high quality products that could last a long time, and they werenâ(TM)t extortionists. Alas, no.

Whether she will be pardoned. That is assured.

The question is how much she will have to pay for it.

If I had to guess: $15M +- $3M. Not very exact, I realize. But, my understanding of the bribery/tribute market is not very good.

I am sure she is gathering the money needed to get a pardon from Trump.

My spies tell me it is a sliding scale, but for someone of her stature the bidding starts at 10million usd.

Of all the wrongs he wants to right, was this one worthy of day-2 action? Hmmm. I wonder how much crypto changed hands?

What is the over-under betting line on what SBF needs to pay for his pardon? I think 20 million ought to do it.

Cerebral hemorrhage. Heart disease. Atherosclerosis. Not polio. (Iâ(TM)ve never heard that polio might have been a contributing factor. I suppose that might be true)

So many of the products I use are now offering ways to re-write your prose. Do we really need all this revising for such minutiae? Do people write things in Notepad that need this help? Another tool I use daily, Confluence, the wiki authoring tool, is offering to rewrite my pages. But my wiki pages (and I expect Iâ(TM)m not alone) are filled with tables and various fragments, like bulleted lists. Rarely is there a paragraph of straight prose. And yet, because of the bubble, these AI tools are front-and-center in the ui.

I suspect as teams at tech companies have been commanded to find ways to expose AI, in any way possible, these are the things that naturally rise to the top, mainly because they are understandable, plausible, and possible. But, at the end of the day, they arenâ(TM)t really useful.

Please, let this bubble burst â" yesterday. Itâ(TM)s getting very tedious.

It reminds me of the blockchain bubble. Departments the world over were coming out with proofs-of-concept that were going to be âgame-changers.â(TM) Then people realized it wasnâ(TM)t terribly useful, and those little projects were quietly shelved. Thankfully.

Like most Americans, I have 240v in the house. Itâ(TM)s just that we donâ(TM)t need to use it except for the biggest loads like a stove. I think itâ(TM)s a better approach. Smaller voltages in general running through the home, with the ability to use double in the few devices that really need it.

Did ai write a screenplay that had some success at the box office?

Just because the union is worried about it doesnâ(TM)t mean they are any better informed than anyone else.

Iâ(TM)m sure.

Gotta ship something. Even if itâ(TM)s worse. Else we will fall behind like all those hip authors tell us.

Do you work for the soon to be gone ceo?
Everyone gets it: creating a new plane is expensive. Training is expensive. But, you will never get the economics that the airlines are looking for with the 737. Look at what they had to do to get bigger fans on the thing. Seems to me it was one of the causes of several hundred deaths.
Pay me now, or pay me later. May as well get started. Itâ(TM)s not going to get any cheaper.

Otherwise, shut the lights out and go home.